NIS Agents Tearing Up the Japanese Empire - Chapter 303



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Episode 303

Homecoming? (6)

The Korean Independence Army, hired by the New People’s Party to protect the workers, quickly swept away the thugs.

To begin with, there was no way that the gangsters, armed only with clubs and small knives, could defeat the military armed with all kinds of firearms and heavy weapons.

The gangsters were usually swept away in an instant as soon as they encountered the independence army.

Because the situation was so sudden, most people were just swept away without even knowing what was happening.

Of course, not everyone was like that.

Even though they are thugs who have no education and only have stubbornness and guts, those who have been around for a long time know like ghosts when their lives are in danger.

“Tongue, bro! Those, those guys, their guns… … .”

“I saw it too!”

“Now, what do we do?”

“What should I do? I have to go to the police station right now!”

The gangsters went straight to a nearby police station or military base to seek help.

“Listen! Listen!”

“They say that the puppet army is invading outside right now and is killing people indiscriminately!”

“Please save us!”

But the police and the military didn’t have a clear solution.

Rather, they treated them coldly, perhaps because they had been ordered by their superiors not to get involved with the independence fighters, or perhaps because the gangsters they had disliked had asked for their help.

“What are you puppet army… … Stop talking nonsense and go back!”

“No, I’m telling you, I can hear gunshots going off all over the city right now!”

“There are already several people who have been shot and killed, so why are you acting so frustrated?”

“Oh, stop talking nonsense and go back!”

“You’re really going crazy, seriously, why are you doing this! And you’re the police and soldiers of this country?! If you’re going to act like this, why are you wearing your uniform!?”

“What? What did you just say?”

The gangsters who were complaining that their lives were in danger and that they were being treated unfairly were met with only the police and military’s indifference and merciless violence.

Ironically, all of this was something they brandished on others without hesitation.

“Tongue, brother… … .”

“… … .”

Even the military and police they trusted turned their backs on them.

And the capitalists, too, seemed to not want to be associated with this commotion, so they quickly cut ties and wiped their mouths clean.

There was only one path left for the gangsters who suddenly found themselves in a situation where their strings had snapped.

“… … Let’s surrender.”

“Surrender? Were we at war?”

“Then, you little punk, if other guys get shot and fall down, isn’t this war?”

“But, if we surrender, will they leave us alone?”

“If you give me my life, I’ll do anything. Even if I roll around in dog shit, isn’t this world the best?”

“That’s true, but… … .”

In the end, all that was left for the gangsters was to raise the white flag and surrender, asking for mercy from the independence army.

Until the capitalists hired thugs to attack workers, and the New People’s Association hired independence fighters, causing blood to flow in the streets.

So it took exactly three days for all this to happen.

It had only been three days since the thugs began to harass the workers, and the situation had reached a point where their lives were in danger.

* * *

“The thugs are coming in one by one, kneeling and trembling.”

“It’s all according to plan, Major.”

“It seems like those who don’t even have a backbone know that acting stiffly will just end up breaking.”

“That’s true too.”

Major Hong Yong-hwan of the Korean Independence Army wiped out all the gangsters in Wonsan in just one day.

Among the people who used to walk around in Wonsan with their shoulders back, half of them died at the hands of the independence fighters, and the other half bowed their heads to the independence fighters and begged them to spare their lives just once.

“What are they going to do now?”

But when it came to actually capturing those thugs, there wasn’t really any use for them.

To begin with, the gangsters were guys who had neither learned anything nor the will to learn anything.

There was no way they would listen to me. I was suppressing them with violence and fear now, but they were the kind of people who would turn around and stab me in the back of the head at any moment.

“He is a sinner who has committed a crime, so he should be made to pay the price.”

“Oh, then are you planning to have him transferred to Yeongil for a formal trial?”

Hong Yong-hwan shook his head.

“no.”

“Yes? Then how are you saying that you will make me pay for my sins?”

Then a smile appeared on Hong Yong-hwan’s lips.

“This is Joseon, not Yeonil. And Joseon has its own ways, so we should handle things the Joseon way.”

“The Joseon way?”

The very next morning.

People were crowding the streets from early in the morning.

People who would normally be busy preparing for their busy daily lives are now taking to the streets, forgetting about their daily lives for a moment.

At the end of their gaze was a group of people.

People wearing large wooden name tags around their necks and handcuffs on both hands were walking down the street in a line.

The name tags around their necks had some pretty funny words written on them… … .

[I am a thug who took money from capitalists and harassed workers. I will gladly accept the judgment of my fellow countrymen.]

Naturally, people’s reactions were not very good.

Everyone, adults and children alike, threw rocks and trash at them, hurling all sorts of curses and venting their anger on them.

Most of the gangsters who felt the wrath of so many people on their bodies cowered and watched the situation closely, but some of them got angry and took out their anger on them.

However, such guys would become quiet again after receiving kind injections (called ‘buttplugs’ by the public) from the independence army soldiers waiting nearby.

* * *

The first card the capitalists played was a shocking failure due to the variable known as the Korean Independence Army.

Thanks to this, they were pushed back to the point where their noses were almost cut off with their eyes wide open.

“What do we do now?”

“Should I open my eyes wide and do whatever they tell me to do?”

“I really don’t understand why Japanese people have such little spirit.”

“There are only communists inside and outside the country, so… … .”

A hotel in Gyeongseong.

Several capitalists deeply involved in this situation gathered together and entered into an emergency meeting.

“No, it’s not the Japanese who are on strike right now, it’s the Koreans. Why are we talking about the Japanese spirit here?”

“Didn’t you say that Korea would soon become Japan? Then aren’t the Koreans who went on strike there Japanese?”

“… … .”

Although some Japanese capitalists expressed discomfort at the words of the white capitalists, they could not refute them because what they said was not wrong, and they could only groan.

Be that as it may, white capitalists, especially British capitalists, were more extreme.

“Is it okay for everyone to sit here and relax like this? Money is being taken out of our pockets right now. How can we be so relaxed?”

“Oh, watch your words. Are you the only one having a hard time here?”

“Looking at everyone’s faces, they all seem very comfortable. Am I the only one having a hard time here?”

“… … .”

“Shut your mouth and sit quietly.”

“joy!”

The unprecedented large-scale strike had caused considerable dissatisfaction among capitalists.

These were people whose pockets would be reduced if the factory was closed or the mine carts stopped running even for a day.

And at the same time, due to the global economic crisis, they were also in a situation where every penny was precious.

In other words, it meant that these people were in a situation where they could never back down.

“What about those guys who are called independence fighters or something? Why are they helping the communists?”

“Huh! They must be communists too. Aren’t they acting under the auspices of the Soviet Union?”

“So, you’re helping those commies.”

From the capitalists’ point of view, the striking workers, the Shin Ganhoe that helped them, and even the Korean Independence Army were all communists.

So, from their perspective, they just felt frustrated with the Governor-General’s Office doing nothing even as the communists roamed around.

“What on earth is the Governor-General doing? This mess needs to end as soon as possible!”

“Just quit it. It seems like you have no interest in our work at all.”

“You don’t care? Are you saying that you are ignoring the fact that all industries and administrative networks in the North have come to a halt?”

This general strike was only a minor disturbance in the area around Wonsan when a few hundred port workers first went on strike.

However, later, when the New People’s Association intervened, workers in the northern industrial zone of the Korean Peninsula joined forces and went on strike simultaneously, causing the entire Korean Peninsula’s industry to come to a halt.

In addition, hundreds and thousands of people marched through the streets simultaneously and filed complaints to government offices, so the already burdensome administrative network of the Governor-General could not bear it any longer and collapsed.

As a result, the power of the Governor-General, which had maintained control over the northern part of the Korean peninsula at least in name, was completely broken, and the independence army and the Shanghai Provisional Government were keen to fill the void.

In Hamgyeong-do and Pyeongan-do, people sent by the Shanghai Provisional Government had already begun building government offices, and bases for the Korean Independence Army were being established one by one.

They began to slowly encroach on the Korean peninsula, as if black ink had been sprinkled on white paper.

However, the spies were all dead, and the Government-General was unaware of this fact, as the police and military in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula were watching the striking workers.

No, knowing that didn’t mean there was anything they could do.

“If even the Governor-General can’t do anything about it, what should we do about this?”

“How about asking the British Army in Hong Kong for help?”

“You want to lend a hand to other countries?”

“Haha, the great British Empire may be a different country to you, but to me it is my one and only homeland.”

“… … .”

It was so bad that there were even calls to call in troops from other countries to replace the Governor-General.

but.

“That is absolutely absurd. The British government would never allow it, and even if they did, the Japanese Empire would obviously be very dissatisfied with the decision.”

“No, then shouldn’t we have done something before calling in foreign troops?!”

“… … That’s true.”

When everyone is talking about such unrealistic and absurd stories.

Someone has proposed a realistic alternative.

“Everyone is so stupid… … .”

In the corner, the old man who had been quietly slicing steak put down his fork and knife and said a word.

Then the white capitalist who had just suggested bringing in the British army turned his head as if he was quite angry.

“What? Who are you?!”

“That’s why everyone says things like ‘amateur.’”

“Oh, an amateur?”

Daegal Daegam smiled leisurely, stretched out both legs on the table, and leaned back leisurely.

“Originally, the harsher the winter, the longer it endures and the more it can enjoy the warm spring.”

“… … ?”

“What do you mean? Your Majesty… … Viscount Yoon.”

“It’s a simple story.”

Daegal laughed, waving his hands in the air.

“If you feel like you’re going to get screwed, now is the time to shake it off and leave.”

“… … ?”

“Oh! By the way, if you leave now, out of consideration for our friendship, I will guarantee your startup funds.”

“… … .”

Our great lord whispered the devil’s whispers into the ears of the capitalists.